> They waited years longer than the competition to switch to larger screens. They only really got to it with the iPhone 6.
There's a lot of people upset they switched to larger screens! I suspect that Steve Jobs really wanted the phone to continue to fit in his jeans watch pocket.
Android phones generally had to be larger for engineering reasons. But larger phones sell well.
> They completely slept on OLED and stuck to LCD until the iPhone X, when all mid to high range Android phones had already used OLED for years.
The iPhone has always had great screens. A lot of the early OLED screens were simply not good enough, cheap enough, and/or available at high enough production.
The iPhone X was more expensive and meant to be a smaller run compared to the main consumer line. It needed a screen with a concave cutout. It makes a lot of sense that this was their first OLED iPhone screen.
IIRC correctly, the iPhone X had much higher demand than Apple anticipated, and there were shortages due to the OLED screen.
Generally, android phones compare favorably because people will pick and choose the winning premium features and the lowest price from a set of Android phones, to compare against the single flagship iPhone. It's rigged.
Eventually people will be talking about how late Apple was to get into folding phones, when nearly all Android phones sold are still non-folding phones today, years after the first folder launched - and folders typically sell at over $1k premium.
> They slept on the screen-to-body ratio. They were years behind their Android competition when they finally changed their course with the iPhone X.
Is replacing hardware buttons with an always-displayed button bar really changing the screen-to-body ratio?
There's a lot of people upset they switched to larger screens! I suspect that Steve Jobs really wanted the phone to continue to fit in his jeans watch pocket.
Android phones generally had to be larger for engineering reasons. But larger phones sell well.
> They completely slept on OLED and stuck to LCD until the iPhone X, when all mid to high range Android phones had already used OLED for years.
The iPhone has always had great screens. A lot of the early OLED screens were simply not good enough, cheap enough, and/or available at high enough production.
The iPhone X was more expensive and meant to be a smaller run compared to the main consumer line. It needed a screen with a concave cutout. It makes a lot of sense that this was their first OLED iPhone screen.
IIRC correctly, the iPhone X had much higher demand than Apple anticipated, and there were shortages due to the OLED screen.
Generally, android phones compare favorably because people will pick and choose the winning premium features and the lowest price from a set of Android phones, to compare against the single flagship iPhone. It's rigged.
Eventually people will be talking about how late Apple was to get into folding phones, when nearly all Android phones sold are still non-folding phones today, years after the first folder launched - and folders typically sell at over $1k premium.
> They slept on the screen-to-body ratio. They were years behind their Android competition when they finally changed their course with the iPhone X.
Is replacing hardware buttons with an always-displayed button bar really changing the screen-to-body ratio?